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As a Facilities Management company with responsibility for only common areas of buildings, is it our responsibility to consider disabled escape from the building and formulate an emergency escape plan? In addition, should we consider the provision of EVAC chairs? Or are these issues down to the tenants of the building?
Help and assistance would be greatly received!!
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You are the maintainer of the building and do not have responsibility for the tenants staff directly therefore, you are not responsible for the formulation of an escape plan. You will however, have to have a plan formulated for your staff working within the building.
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jarsmith83 wrote:You are the maintainer of the building and do not have responsibility for the tenants staff directly therefore, you are not responsible for the formulation of an escape plan. You will however, have to have a plan formulated for your staff working within the building.
...unless your contract with the tenants or landlord says differently! At the last place I worked, We were responsible for escape plans, but our contract with the landlord said they maintained all escape facilities including specified diabled escape facilities, and they subcontracted it to the FM company.
(although even then the responsibility is the tenant's, they have to make sure it's done although they may be paying you to do it)
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Agree with Paul that it will depend on the terms of the agreement/lease/contract, but also remember that the Fire Safety Order Article 22 does require you to 'co-operate and co-ordinate' in premises where there is more than one responsible person (or words to that effect).
Equally the tenants will also need to work with each other as well as you.
Would seem a sensible approach to work together to ensure that all aspects of fire safety and evacuation are suitably arranged.
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Can we please forget the acronym DDA:-(
The equality act 2010 covers far more than solely disabled persons - it is the duties under this act that determine whether or not discrimination has occurred AND the positive general duties that must be suitably met.
Bob
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boblewis wrote:Can we please forget the acronym DDA:-(
Bob
Thanks Bob, you beat me to it!
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